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The
Premier
online
literary
journal
for
Expressive
Writing
The
Premier
online
literary
journal
for
Expressive
Writing
JOURNAL OF
EXPRESSIVE WRITING
THEMES by PROMPT
We publish writing using a series of prompts as an entry point for exploring emotions, personal histories, shared truths, joy, grief, shame, and those themes that matter most to us in our hearts.
Explore the themes by prompt below:
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Dec 17, 2021
Nesting
By Megan Vos — Last year during Covid, my family noticed that a robin had built a nest under our deck. Our deck is off the back of our
Dec 14, 2021
Dancing Suzie
By Zaqary Fekete — I picked up Suzie on Friday night. We had coupons. If you know where to look you were set. The First Avenue concert venue
Dec 12, 2021
No Need to Respond
By Susan Swan — Over the past fifty years of friendship, I have lost you then found you over and over. At 18, I really did not know anything
Dec 9, 2021
Disappearing
By Kelly Kotewa — My mother is disappearing. This is not the woman who raised me. Her shape is still there taking up space. Her voice is
Dec 6, 2021
“Freedom Shadows” for Ahmaud Arbery
By Celucien Joseph — If freedom were a color, what will be its preference? Will it be brown, black, white, ultraviolet, or no color?
Dec 3, 2021
I Cried
By Gabrielle Maryland — At the height of the pandemic, I found myself sobbing on whatever floor could hold my shaking frame. Often times,
Dec 1, 2021
She Could Be Me
By Phyllis Rittner — Both my parents had dementia. I lie awake nights convinced I have the gene. I work with folks in their eighties and
Nov 28, 2021
My Grandma
By Maged Zaher — My grandma was mean and scared and scary. She would win the Nobel in fear. Ah, what I believe is harmful. Yet I don't have
Nov 26, 2021
Rather an Intermediate State
By Laszlo Aranyi (Frater Azmon) — In the doorway, the town dogcatcher, "Dogie" utters: "Gentlemen, I have told you before, you could learn
Nov 22, 2021
Flatbush Food Co-Op
By Ivy Raff — We came to know each other in these days, idly rolling the rickety red powder-coated shopping cart back and forth over cracked
Nov 19, 2021
Despite this Pandemic
By Sinéad MacDevitt — Despite this pandemic, I'm at work. Despite this pandemic, I'm on a sabbatical. Despite this pandemic, I'm constantly
Nov 16, 2021
e a r t h q u a k e: a social gathering
By priyanuj — Earthquake can get away with murder. Not the kind where she smothers me to death. She merely takes off the oxygen mask, so
Nov 12, 2021
Babba and Me
By Madge Kaplan — The first bite was easy, the crunch and chewiness as familiar as gazing at my toes. On the second bite, a bit of panic.
Nov 9, 2021
Pandemic Haibun
By Deborah Bacharach — I want to hug Marcie in her orange home-knit sweater. I can see her now coming down Greenwood past the buff work-out
Nov 6, 2021
Mirrors
By Pooja Sinha — When I look in the mirror, I see that young girl, acting in her favorite green dress in a theater production in School. She
Nov 4, 2021
Why am I a 28 year old Virgin?
By Aaron Curry — Ask me. Why am I a 28 year old virgin? Growing up in an area that's promiscuous and urban. Why, for the most part, have I
Nov 2, 2021
Dawn at the Carquinez Strait
By Thomas Piekarski — There is much disclosure of facts about mankind's impending fate, but our human faculties fall short of altering those
Oct 29, 2021
Pandemic Wishes
By Anangsha Haldar — Glass rimmed, venous wings hang like paper kites, flittering anxiously, contemplating release from the narrow
Oct 26, 2021
June 10, 2021
By Audrey Geliga — I have been on a journey of self-love, self-acceptance, and self-rediscovery, for almost three years now. I thought that
Oct 22, 2021
Addiction
By Bhuwan Thapaliya — He comes home late in the evening only to slump in front of the television, often with
an alcoholic drink. Her
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